Facebook is by no means the most popular social network in South Korea, with only 2.3 million users there. Cyworld ranks first, with 18 million users. So has Facebook’s privacy stance slowed adoption in South Korea, and would any effort to comply with the nation’s regulations help turn things around over there?

It’s possible that other barriers to entry may have more of an effect on Facebook’s lesser popularity in South Korea. The social network appears to lag in nations that have non-Roman alphabets. Whether better translation of the content would improve things remains to be seen.

It does seem to be rather interesting timing for the KCC to complain about privacy on Facebook, given that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has recently asked the public for comment on whether to create policy regulating the matter.

What do you make of South Korea’s assertion that Facebook voilates the country’s privacy laws?